pasta

For Christmas my aunt brought over lasagna. Prior to that, I honestly don’t know how long it has been since I’ve had lasagna. A few years at least. 🙄 It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s just the combination of being lactose intolerant and trying to eat less carbs has […]

Disclaimer: I received free products from Tresomega to create recipes. All opinions are my own. They’re saying that we’re going to have a bitterly cold, brutal winter. I don’t like any of the words in that sentence. I am not a winter person at all, and if I could stand […]

Even though Mother Nature can’t seem to decide if it’s going to be Spring or not (our temperatures keep jumping from the 40’s to nearly 80 degrees every couple of days), I’ve decided Spring is here and I’m celebrating it whether or not the weather is on board. Mainly this […]

I’ve switched out pasta for zucchini noodles and spaghetti squash tons of times, but I never thought that you could do it with a butternut squash until I saw a recipe for noodled squash on Pinterest. I had just received a butternut squash from Melissa’s Produce a few days before. […]

It’s time for #FoodieExtravaganza again! Our theme for this month is Oktoberfest and it’s being hosted by Sue of Palatable Pastime. I’m actually attending my first Oktoberfest in a few weeks so I can’t wait to report back on how the food is. I looked at different recipes for quite […]

There are a lot of condiments and foods that I love and Tom won’t come anywhere near them. One of the items on that list is cold pasta salad. He will eat cooked pasta. He will eat veggies pureed into a sauce, but he will not eat cold veggies (or […]

It’s not very often that I find a recipe in a magazine where I want to make the entire dish. Usually I either want the protein from one recipe and the side dish from another or some strange combination. Not this time. I read this recipe and thought “I’m making […]

For the Secret Recipe Club this month I was assigned to Edesia’s Notebook. Lesa also participates in the Improv Challenge so I’m quite familiar with her blog. Actually, my first thought of what to make from her blog was the cardamom-crusted pork with orange sauce that she made for the challenge […]

Recipe Remake: While this stuffed shells recipe is not super popular, I couldn’t pass up taking a new picture the last time I made it since the first one is so terrible! Stuffed ShellsSource: A Cookaholic Wife CreationServings: 4-6Printer Friendly Ingredients: 24 jumbo shells for the filling: 16 oz. cottage […]

I love butternut squash. It is by far one of my favorite winter vegetables out there. I could easily eat it all of the time, but I am unfortunately the only one in the house willing to eat it. So I’ve not had nearly as much of it as I […]